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All the oddball Texas places in RoadsideAmerica.com Visitor Tips, news, stories and field reports. Closed and extinct attractions may be found in Gone But Not Forgotten

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Abernathy: Crucified Jesus Under Glass
Acton: Smallest State Park in Texas
Adrian: Route 66 Midpoint
Alice: Concrete Water Tower
Alpine: Apache Trading Post's Jackassic Park
Amarillo: Big Texan Steak Ranch
Amarillo: Cadillac Ranch
Amarillo: Floating Mesa
Amarillo: Guardian of the Arts
Amarillo: Helium Time Columns Monument
Amarillo: Huge Pair of Legs
Amarillo: Muffler Man
Amarillo: Swimming pool shaped like Texas
Amarillo: Weird Street Signs in Yards
Angleton: 76-ft. Tall Stephen A. Austin Statue
Archer City: Last Picture Show Theater - The Royal Theatre
Arlington: Best of Texas, Briefly at Six Flags
Arlington: Old Arlington Downs Watering trough
Arlington: Witness Tree Remembrance Stump
Aurora: Space Alien Pilot Buried Here
Austin: Cathedral of Junk
Austin: Giant Spider Sculpture
Austin: Large mother hen
Austin: Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata
Austin: Museum of the Weird
Austin: Peter Pan Mini Golf
Austin: Purple Martin Roost at a Mall
Austin: Swimming pool shaped like Texas
Austin: Taco Maria Statue
Austin: Texas Chainsaw Massacre Film Locations
Austin: World's Largest Longhorn
Austin: World's Largest Urban Bat Colony
Ballinger: Giant Cross
Bandera: Two-Headed Somethings on Display
Bastrop: Texas Chainsaw Massacre BBQ
Beaumont: Gusher Monument and Replica Oil Boomtown
Beaumont: Muffler Man - Happy Half Wit
Beaumont: World's (3rd) Largest Fire Hydrant
Belton: Artistic Blimpies mural -- eat under a bucking bronco
Benbrook: Giant Cow
Benbrook: Giant Robot Playground
Benbrook: Vernon Castle Airplane Crash Site Memorial
Big Bend National Park: Dog Canyon Tiki Head
Boerne: Cascade Caverns
Boerne: Cave Without A Name
Boerne: Muffler Man - Cowboy
Bracketville: Alamo Village - John Wayne's Movie Set
Bracketville: Indian Scout Cemetery
Breckenridge: Purple People Eater
Brookshire: Tywheelosaurus Rex
Buffalo Gap: Barbadilla, Giant Texas Armadillo
Buna: Polka Dot House
Burleson: Big Wrench
Burnet: Falkenstein Castle
Burton: Burton Cotton Gin and Museum
Burton: Errant Block of Granite
Caldwell: Odd Sculptures
Camp Air: Big Table Lamp
Canadian: Gene Cockrell's Concrete Sculptures
Canyon City: Texas Warning Sign - More Dam Humor
Canyon: Combine City - Cadillac Ranch in Tractors
Canyon: Tex Randall, Big Texan
Carl's Corner: Dancing Frogs at Willie Nelson-Branded Biodiesel Truck Stop
Cisco: Bank Robbed By Santa Claus
Cisco: First Hilton Hotel
Cleburne: Rotten Old Merman
Clute: Great Texas Mosquito Festival
Clyde: Atlas ICBM Highway
College Station: George Bush Presidential Library and Museum
College Station: Reveille, First Lady of A&M
Columbus: Mary Elizabeth Hopkins Santa Claus Museum
Commerce: Bois d'Arc Capitol
Conlen: Scary Giant Cowboy Statue
Conway: VW Slug Bug Ranch
Cornudas: Population 5-6
Corpus Christi - Padre Island: Pirate and Smuggling Museum
Corpus Christi: Car Washing Sculpture
Corpus Christi: Demon of Corpus Christi
Corsicana: Air-Powered Statue Made of Mufflers
Corsicana: Bathtub Man & Purple Gorilla Statue
Corsicana: Huge Fishing Pole and Fish
Corsicana: Two Heads of Black Diamond the Elephant
Cresson: Transportation Museum with Space Capsule
Crosbyton: Creationist Fossil Museum
Cross Plains: Museum to the Creator of Conan the Barbarian
Crystal City: Popeye Statues
DISH: Town Named To Get Free Satellite TV
Daisetta: Daisetta Sinkhole
Dallas: Another Big Cow
Dallas: Bizarre Giant Murals
Dallas: Bronze Hands of the Famous
Dallas: Cattle Drive Through Dallas
Dallas: Dealey Plaza
Dallas: Giraffe Statue at Dallas Zoo
Dallas: Golden Boy - AT&T's Embarrassing Mascot
Dallas: Grave of Bonnie Parker (of Bonnie and Clyde)
Dallas: Grave of Clyde Barrow (of Bonnie and Clyde)
Dallas: Happy Meal Shaped McDonald's
Dallas: Kennedy Assassination Cenotaph
Dallas: Medieval Times
Dallas: Motorcycle Haven with Statues
Dallas: Muffler Man
Dallas: Muffler Man - Happy Half Wit
Dallas: Muffler Man - Happy Half-Wit
Dallas: Muffler Man Blood Feud
Dallas: The Sixth Floor
Dallas: Traffic Accidents Shark
Dallas: World's Largest Patio Chair
Dallas: Zoo-themed McDonald's restaurant
Davilla: World's Largest Purple Martin Apartment Complex
De Kalb: Rick Nelson Death Plane Tail
Decatur: Petrified Wood Gas Station, Cafe, Motel
Del Rio - Alpine: Lost Uniroyal Gal of Texas
Denton: Albino Squirrel Preservation Society - But No Squirrel
Denton: Big Animal BBQ Smokers
Denton: Pecan Picasso: The Folk Art of B. W. Crawford
Dilley: Statue of Half-Eaten Watermelon
Dime Box: Big Dime in a Box
Dublin: Only Place That Makes Original Formula Dr Pepper
Eagle Pass: Miraculous Floating Jesus Statue
Eastland: Last Mob Lynching In Texas
Eastland: Old Rip, Miracle Horned Toad
Eastland: Outdoor Art Museum - Campbell's Soup Can
Eastland: Postage Stamp Mural
Eastland: Rope Used To Lynch Santa Claus
El Paso: Alligator Park aka Plaza de los Lagartos
El Paso: Boy with the Boot Statue
El Paso: Chamizal National Memorial - It used to be in Mexico
El Paso: Concordia Cemetery
El Paso: Controversial Conquistador Statue
El Paso: Highest Aerial Tramway in the U.S.
El Paso: Hueco Tanks State Historical Park
El Paso: John Wesley Hardin Grave
El Paso: Only Bhutanese Architecture in this Hemisphere
El Paso: US Border Patrol Museum
El Paso: World's Largest Man-Made Illuminated Star
Esperanza: Truck Stop with Live Tigers
Forney: School Mascot Jackrabbit
Forney: Statue of Liberty
Fort Hood: 4th Infantry Division Museum
Fort Stockton: Paisano Pete - Roadrunner
Fort Worth: "Machine Gun" Kelly's House
Fort Worth: Airplane on a Stick
Fort Worth: Bicycle Tree
Fort Worth: Big Jackalope on a Roof
Fort Worth: Come Watch the Money Being Made!
Fort Worth: Edelweiss German Restaurant Entertainment
Fort Worth: House Moving Museum
Fort Worth: National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame
Fort Worth: Wax Last Supper
Fort Worth: World's Second Oldest Continuously Burning Lightbulb
Fredericksburg: Bat Tornado at Dusk
Fredericksburg: Bush Gallery of the Pacific War
Fredericksburg: World's Largest Cap Gun Collection
Fredrickburg: Admiral Nimitz Museum
Freeport: Phantom Shrimp Boat
Freer: World's Largest Rattlesnake
Gainesville: Glenn Goode's Big People
Galveston: 1900 Great Storm Statue
Galveston: Big Blue Crab
Galveston: Galveston's Giant Seafood
Galveston: Giant Trumpet
Galveston: Offshore Oil Drilling Rig and Museum
Galveston: Pirate Jean Lafitte Ruins
Galveston: Surfboard Shark
Galveston: UTMB Ghost Image
Garland: Buddhist Meditation Temple
Georgetown: Inner Space Caverns
Glen Rose: Creation Evidence Museum
Glen Rose: Dinosaur Valley State Park
Granbury: 103-Year-Old Jesse James' Grave
Granbury: Bed and Breakfast with Dinosaurs
Granbury: John Wilkes Booth did not die! Murals
Granbury: Outlaw Relocation Program
Grand Prairie: Chromosaurs
Grand Prairie: Small Merman
Grand Prairie: Southwest Historical Wax Museum - Burnt Memories
Grand Saline: Salt Palace - Grand Saline Museum
Greenville: Audie Murphy - America's Most Decorated Soldier
Greenville: Big Swordfish and Seahorse
Groom: 2nd Largest Cross in the Western Hemisphere
Groom: Leaning Water Tower

Harker Heights: Blue Gill Graveyard
Harlingen: Original Iwo Jima Memorial and Museum
Helena: Black Diamond's Leg
Hemphill: Space Shuttle Columbia Crash Site
Hidalgo: Killer Bee Capital of the World
Hillsboro: Big Bopper's Casket on Display
Hillsboro: Roadside America Museum
Houston: 170-Ft. Tall Cross
Houston: 50-foot Saxophone Made from Cars
Houston: Art Car Museum
Houston: Beer Can House
Houston: Brightly Painted Railroad Cars
Houston: Cactus King
Houston: Giant Armadillo
Houston: Giant President Heads
Houston: Metal Sculptures
Houston: Mount Rush Hour
Houston: National Museum of Funeral History
Houston: The Flower Man
Houston: The Orange Show
Houston: Those Introspective Art Guys
Houston: Transparent Woman
Houston: Water Wall
Houston: Waugh Bridge Bat Colony
Huntsville: Giant Statue of Sam Houston
Huntsville: Grave of Tripod the Dog
Huntsville: Texas Prison Museum
Hunt: Stonehenge II and Easter Island Heads
Hutto: Hutto Hippo Statues
Iraan: Alley Oop Land
Irving: Giant Dr Pepper Cans
Irving: JFK Assassination Garage
Italy: World's Largest Caterpillar
Jamaica Beach: Oil Tank House
Jarell: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 - Vague Recollections
Johnson City: The Feed Mill Complex
Junction: Deer Antler Tree
Katy: Forbidden Gardens
Katy: Golden Chariot
Kemah: Lighthouse Water Tower
Kerrville: Texas Shaped Swimming Pool
Kilgore: East Texas Oil Museum
Kilgore: World's Richest Acre
LaPorte: Battleship Texas
Lajitas: Abandoned Contrabando Movie Set
Lake Jackson: This Way - That Way Streets
Lamesa: Uniroyal Gal - Tornadoes Cheerleader
Laredo: Pepsi Six-pack Building
Leakey: McLauren Massacre - Died and Buried Here
Lipan: Giant Rocking Chair
Livingston: Johnson's Rock Shop and Museum
Llano: Llano County Jail - Gallows
Los Ebanos: Only Hand-Operated Ferry Across USA-Mexico Border
Los Fresnos: Little Graceland
Los Fresnos: Seven Seas Souvenir Shop
Lubbock: Buddy Holly Museum and Giant Glasses Photo Op
Lubbock: Prairie Dog Town
Lubbock: Statue of Buddy Holly
Lubbock: Stubb Bar-B-Q Memorial
Luling: Watermelon Thump and Water Tower
Marfa: Marfa Mystery Lights
Marshall: Christmas Land - Large Santa Statue
McLean: Devil's Rope Museum - Barbed Wire
Midland: First Airplane of Texas
Midland: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum
Midland: World's Longest Pair of Horns
Miles: Frankenburris Cowboy Sculpture
Mineral Wells: Famous Mineral Water
Mineral Wells: Large Yogi Bear Statue
Mineral Wells: Sam The Snowman
Morton: Freezer Mary
Muenster: Fischer's Meat Market Glockenspiel
Muleshoe: World's Largest Muleshoe, Mule Tributes
Navasota: World's Largest Teapot
O'Donnell: Dan (Bonanza's Hoss) Blocker Memorial
Oatmeal: Oatmeal Water Tower
Odessa: Permian Basin Stonehenge
Odessa: Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Replica
Odessa: World's Largest Jackrabbit
Oplin: Missile Base Bachelor Pad
Palestine: Chrome Angel Grave
Paris: Eiffel Tower With Big Cowboy Hat
Paris: Giant Soup Can
Paris: Jesus wearing cowboy boots Grave
Paris: Statue of Pyro the Dragon
Pattison: Giant Playmate Igloo Cooler
Pearland: Big President Heads next to a Canal
Pittsburg: Ezekiel Airship - Bible First in Powered Flight
Pittsburg: Full-size Replica Ezekiel Airship
Pittsburg: Giant Bo Pilgrim Head
Pittsburg: Oldest Hand Operated Elevator in the State of Texas
Pittsburg: Painted Dinosaurs - Community Art Project
Plano: Cockroach Hall of Fame
Plano: Texas-Shaped Pool
Plano: Texas-shaped Pool
Port Arthur: Museum of the Gulf Coast - Janis Joplin Memorabilia
Port Isabel: World's Largest Fly Fishing Pole
Poteet: World's Largest Strawberry, Water Tower, Festival
Prairie View: Swimming pool shaped like Texas
Quinlan: Futuro - Flying Saucer House
Quitman: Light Crust Doughboys Hall of Fame & Museum
Ransom Canyon: Steel House
Regency: Ghost Town Suspension Bridge
Richmond: Cow Dipping Demonstrations
Rockport: World's Largest Crab
Round Top: Big George the Muffler Man
Saint Jo: Lady Bug VWs and Other Big Folk Art
Salado: Indian Mermaid Statue
San Angelo: Mermaid Statue in the Concho River
San Angelo: Muffler Man - Mr. Bendo
San Antonio: Alamo City Ghost Tours
San Antonio: Alien DNA on Display
San Antonio: Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Art Museum
San Antonio: Buckhorn Saloon and Museum
San Antonio: Ed Clark's Year-Round Christmas House
San Antonio: Ghostly Gravity Hill
San Antonio: Hertzberg Circus Museum - Sideshow display
San Antonio: Muffler Man - Native American
San Antonio: San Antonio Ghost Chasers Tour
San Antonio: Wooden Nickel Museum and Giant Wooden Nickel
San Antonio: World's Largest Cowboy Boots
San Antonio: World's Largest Virgin Mary Mosaic
San Benito: Freddy Fender Memorial
San Benito: Freddy Fender Water Tower
San Marcos: Anti-Gravity House
San Marcos: Gondola Park - Ride the Gondolas
Santo: Bayou Bob's Brazos River Rattlesnake Ranch
Schertz: Giant Armadillo
Seguin: World's Largest Mobile Pecan
Seguin: World's Second Largest Pecan
Seven Points: Big Cowboy Muffler Man
Shamrock: Blarney Stone
Shamrock: Conoco Tower - Route 66 Art Deco
Shenandoah: Boy in the Plastic Bubble Exhibit
Sherman: Cowboy Muffler Man
Sinton: Big Squirrel Statue
Smithville: Smiley Face Water Tower
Snyder: White Buffalo Statue #1
Snyder: White Buffalo Statue #2
Snyder: White Buffalo Statue #3
Snyder: Yard Art - Mr. Peanut and Other Statues
Somerville: Indian Statue
Somewhere: Patriotic Fireworks for Sale
Stamford: Dinosaur Sculptures
Stephenville: Moola the Cow
Sulphur Springs: Southwest Dairy Center and Museum
Sweetwater: National WASP Museum and Site
Teague: All American Auto Parts Man
Temple - San Antonio?: Mermaid in a Cave - Vague Recollections
Texarkana: Muffler Man Sighting
Thurber: Thurber's Lonely Smokestack
Toyahvale: World's Largest Swimming Pool
Tuscola: World's Largest Longhorn Collection - Not Currently Open
Tyler: Grave of Shorty the Squirrel
Tyler: Oil Derrick Rest Stop Picnic Tables
Valentine: Prada Store
Van Horn: Mexican Restaurant John Madden Tribute
Van Horn: Smokehouse Car Museum
Vega: Cowboy Boot Tree at Dot's Mini Museum
Vernon: Convertible Mannequins
Vernon: Junkyard Critters
Waco: Dr Pepper Museum #2
Waco: Giant Texas Ranger Statue - Bushwhacked!
Waco: Mount Carmel Massacre Site
Waco: Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum
Waco: World's Largest Dog Collectibles Museum
Warrenton: World's Smallest Catholic Church
Waxahachie: Muffler Man - Indian Chief
Waxahachie: Munster Mansion
Waxahachie: Toothpick King Sculptures
Waxahachie: Unrequited Love Carvings
Weatherford: I-split Around Historic Tree
Weatherford: Peter Pan Statue
Wharton: Big Green Dinosaur
Wharton: Tee Pee Motel
Wichita Falls: Hand-made Waterfalls
Wichita Falls: World's Smallest Skyscraper
Wink: Roy Orbison Museum
Woodson: Town Bombed by the Japanese
Woodville: Heritage Garden Village

Gone But Not Forgotten

Closed and extinct places to remember, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...

Amarillo: Texas Tornado Museum - Closed
Arlington: Sewing Machine Museum - Closed
Blanco: Miracle Weeping Icon of the Virgin Mary - Gone
Cisco: Kendrick Religious Museum - Closed
Dallas: Conspiracy Museum - Closed
Dallas: Statue of Lenin - Gone
Dallas: Year-Round Santa Statue - Gone
Fort Worth: Texas USA The Bull - Missing
Fort Worth: Uniroyal Gal - Gone
Galveston: Giant Neptune Statue - Gone
Galveston: Hotel Shaped like an Ocean Liner - Gone
Houston: Pawn Shop Wedding Chapel - Gone

Houston: Pizza Pan Mary - Gone
Italy: Starship Pegasus - Closed
Lajitas: Clay Henry III, Beer-Drinking Goat
Port Neches: Gleason Museum - Gone
Port Neches: Miraculous Screen Door Jesus - Gone
Rio Hondo: Carrier Bridge in a Farm Field - Gone
San Antonio: Bats of San Antonio - Gone
Snyder: Gold DeLorean in Bank Lobby - Gone
Terlingua: Easter Egg Motel - Gone
Tool - Seven Points: Muffler Man - Gone

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